Why does being an artist increasingly feel like sending your blood, sweat and tears into the void? Episode 2, Part I explores how concentrations of capital at the top of the market make life hard for working artists on a macro, systemic level. WORKS CITED -Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Edited by Frederick Engels. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Revised edition. Modern Library, 1906, p. 686. -Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Revised edition. New York: Zone Books, 1995, §4, §29. THOUGHT CONTRIBUTORS -Georgina Rossi, Violist, www.georginarossi.com -Lane Sell, Master Printmaker, www.shoestringpressny.com -Sam Ashworth, Novelist and Journalist, samuelashworth.com -Anonymous, Assistant Director on Broadway MUSIC -Theme music and musical consultation: Georgina Rossi, www.georginarossi.com -Interlude: Ludwig Beethoven, String Quartet No. 16 in F - IV. Grave, Adagio, Allegro

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